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SAINT-SAËNS Ascanio (Märkl)

The main work in Jun Märkl and the Malmö Symphony’s survey of Saint-Saëns rarities is the Act 3 ballet from...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Vänskä)

Let me say straight away that Vänskä is temperamentally far better suited to the pristine, childlike world of the Fourth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2020

TOMBELLE Musique De Chambre, Chorale et Symphonique

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928), the subject of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s latest composer portrait, was best known in his lifetime...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2020

KAPP; LEMBA; LÜDIG 'Estonian Orchestral Works'

This is a fascinating survey of Estonian orchestral music by composers born towards the end of the 19th century showing...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2020

HAYDN; STAMITZ Concertos for Flute and Oboe

The lira organizzata was, as described by Richard Wigmore, ‘a high-tech hurdy-gurdy with sympathetic strings and an inbuilt miniature organ’....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020

HAYDEN Substratum

My first introduction to Sam Hayden’s music was in the back room of a low ceilinged bar at the Huddersfield...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2020

GUNNING Symphonies 2, 10 & 12

Numerous composers have secured their reputation through scores for film and television, subsequently to attempt music for the concert hall...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2020

GOOSSENS Phantasy Concerto. Symphony No 2 (Davis)

It’s been a decade since Chandos issued the first volume in this Goossens survey from Melbourne (6/09). Andrew Achenbach greeted...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 80 (Howard Shelley)

Resisting any temptation to repeat old jokes about the lack of famous Belgians, may I introduce to you, making his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020

DUKAS L’Apprenti Sorcier ROUSSEL Le Festin d’Araignée (Rophé)

The big news here – to me, at least, since I missed this same team’s Dutilleux disc (BIS, 1/16) –...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020

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